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...almost sure to say, My God, that could be me. And nothing makes blacks feel more helpless than the thought that they cannot do anything about it. However innocent a black may be, and however outrageously he or she may be treated, the criminal-justice system simply will not convict policemen of using excessive force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire This Time | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

Though some of the children's tales verged on the fantastic, their testimony proved strong enough to convict Kelly, 44, on 99 counts of sexually abusing a dozen children at his preschool in this remote town perched on the edge of Albemarle Sound.The verdict brought to an end the longest (eight months) and most expensive (estimated cost: $1.2 million) trial in North Carolina history. Often compared with California's landmark McMartin Pre-School case, whose defendants were ultimately acquitted, the trial aroused heated passions in the bucolic community of Edenton, where many residents were torn between outrage over the alleged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Listen to The Children | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

Midshipman Harry Brewer, played by Larry Bramire, is also fascinating as a man tortured by his conscience and by the ghosts of the dead, as is Chloe Leamon's Dabby Bryant--a woman with a will to live--and Sheila Ferrini's embittered Liz Morden, a convict with the shadow of the gallows upon...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Art's Redemptive Powers Triumph in Our Country's Good | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

Robert J. Bouffier, playing John Wisehammer, a convict fascinated by the power of words, also deserves attention. He frequently quotes from Johnson's Dictionary: "abject: a man without hope" and has secret hopes of becoming a playwright. In fact, Wertenbaker makes him the voice for the words which name this play: "True patriots we, for be it understood/We left our country for our country's good." (Incidentally, these lines are generally attributed to George Barrington, but nevermind...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Art's Redemptive Powers Triumph in Our Country's Good | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

...self-righteous stick of a man who reforms and is made human by the play which he directs. Gutmann is not convincing as the man who used to kiss the portrait of his wife a thousand times before he went to bed, and declared: "I'm not a convict. I don't sin"--nor is he as the man who has an adulterous affair with a pretty convict...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Art's Redemptive Powers Triumph in Our Country's Good | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

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